When it comes to making the most of those small yet trickier areas of a yard, choosing the right plants can make all the ...

Pick Your Plants Crevice gardening works best with small vegetation: beardtongue (Penstemon), hens and chicks (Sempervivum), stonecrop (Sedum), rock cress (Aubrieta), dwarf conifers, and ice plants ...

like beardtongue (Penstemon), hens and chicks (Sempervivum), stonecrop (Sedum), rock cress (Aubrieta), dwarf conifers, and ice plants. Maintaining a crevice garden is relatively straightforward ...

A crevice garden converts this unused space into a ... like hardy ice plants (Delosperma), hens and chicks (Sempervivum) or the Siskiyou Lewisia (Lewisia cotyledon), a Pacific Northwest native.

A crevice garden is an exceptional way to deal with one of the hardest terrains to grow a garden. But more than that, crevice ...

Sempervivum is a large genus of alpine rosette-forming plants native to the mountain ranges of Europe and western Asia. Because of the cold temperatures experienced where they grow, they are ...

But hang on to your prickly pears. I’ve discovered there is something even more adventurous than a rock garden, a more extreme version called a crevice garden. Think industrial A while ago ...

Plant collector and grower Tony Avent has created a 300ft-long crevice garden at Juniper Level Botanic Garden in Raleigh, North Carolina (Tony Avent/Plant Delights) But hang on to your prickly pears.

Crevice gardens also give you an opportunity to have a visually interesting area of your garden, and to add dimension to a flat garden space. They allow you to create microclimates for unusual or ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. A crevice garden is an exceptional way to deal with one of the hardest terrains to grow a garden. But more than that, crevice gardens can create ...

Sempervivum is a large genus of alpine rosette ... Brian Kemble is curator at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek. His monthly column focuses on drought tolerant plants and dry gardens.